Easy scripting problem: select all text in viewer window

DEVONthink Automation
1 

	tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
		activate
		set oWin to open window for record oLocn
		set selection of viewer window 1 to oNewRec

This works great (BTW, oLocn is set to open in three pane view). I now have the record in the top of the window selected, and the text below it.

Now I want select all the text in the text-displaying pane of the window and then run another applescript (that references selected text).

But how to select all the text? How even to get the text pane focused?

I tried:


tell application "System Events" to keystroke "A" using {command down}

but this fails. And I’ve tried to “set the focused to true”, but I don’t know even how to “get” the text area (?) or text field (?) of a three-pane-view window!

Geniuses, please help!

2

I’m not sure what you are trying to do here.

If you are trying to just get the text for the currently displayed record, you can do something a lot more reliable than issuing commands with the system events:

 
tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
	set the_rec to content record of window 1
	set the_text to rich text of the_rec
end tell

That will get you the text as rich text, you can also just get plain text by substituting the word “plain” for “rich.”

But I might be completely misunderstanding your intent…

-erico

3

Instead of selecting all and accessing “selected text” you could simply access “text”.